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to blend into the background. He pushed his voice into daring falsetto peaks, cut raw demos in a modest two-track studio, and kept going without the safety net of a major label. With songwriter Twyla Herbert, he built ornate, emotionally charged mini-dramas that defied radio norms yet still climbed the charts. “The Gypsy Cried,” “Two Faces Have I,” continue reading …